Cover Versions
"Beautiful" has been covered numerous times by various artists; and different versions of the song have been featured on television and film.
| Year | Performer | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Alex Parks | Introduction | Parks, a contestant on BBC TV's "Fame Academy", performed the song on the show; she eventually won her season and recorded a studio version of the song for her debut album Introduction and it appeared as a b-side to her first single "Maybe That's What It Takes". |
| Clem Snide | A Beautiful EP | The band covered the song as the title track to its 2004 A Beautiful EP. | |
| Christina Moore | MADtv parodied the music video as "Virginal", with Moore portraying Aguilera. In the video, Aguilera becomes "virginal" after the public tires of her suggestive image (the last straw being the "Dirrty" video.) | ||
| Krezip | That'll be unpugged | Krezip performed this song as part of their unplugged "PURE" session for music channel The Box. This recording is available on CD and DVD "That'll be unpugged". | |
| 2004 | No Talent Necessary | ||
| Daniel Franzese | Franzese, as his character Damian, performed the song on Mean Girls. | ||
| P!nk | P!nk mocked Aguilera performing the song during her Try This Tour. During the tour, Pink performs a solo version of Lady Marmalade with four blow up dolls resembling herself, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Aguilera. Along with her background dancers, Pink performs several aggressive sexual acts with the dolls. As the song flows to Aguilera's verse, Pink stops the performance abruptly and states to the crowd, "I want you guys to see this face". She then begins to improv the chorus of "Beautiful", stating, "You are beautiful, no matter what I say." | ||
| Kenny G and Chaka Khan | At Last...The Duets Album | It was covered by Kenny G and Chaka Khan for Kenny G's At Last...The Duets Album. | |
| 2005 | G4 | G4 & Friends | The band included their own version of the song on their 2005 sophomore album. |
| Gloria Gaynor | Gaynor performed the song in ITV’s reality show Hit Me, Baby, One More Time ; since then Beautiful has become a regular on the set list of her concerts. | ||
| David Walliams | David Walliams sang it to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, played by Anthony Head, in an episode of Little Britain. | ||
| Elvis Costello | House M.D. Original Television Soundtrack | Costello covered the song specifically for the House episode "Autopsy". | |
| 2006 | Sandra Bernhard | Everything Bad & Beautiful. | Sandra Bernhard did an own version as the opening song to her 2007 comedy show "Everything Bad & Beautiful". In the end, after she sings a medley of "Just Like a Pill" by Pink and "Kiss Me Deadly" by Lita Ford, she repeats the line "so don't you bring me down today". |
| Jessica Mauboy | Australian Idol: The Journey | Australian Idol 2006 runner up Jessica Mauboy performed a cover during the Top 10 show No. 1 Hits, which received much praise from the judges and audience. She then went on to release a cover of "Beautiful" for her Australian Idol: The Journey album which was released as a single but never was charted. | |
| Guns N' Roses | Guitarists Richard Fortus and Robin Finck of Guns N' Roses covered "Beautiful" instrumentally for the early shows of Guns N' Roses' 2006 tour. | ||
| Brett Anderson | Suede singer Brett Anderson performed a version of the song on piano, which was uploaded to his official YouTube channel. | ||
| Girl Authority | Girl Authority | The band covered the song on their debut covers album. | |
| 2007 | Angy Fernández | Angy Fernandez sang it in the first season of the Spanish version of Factor X. | |
| 2008 | Avion Baker | In "Believe the Unseen", an episode of ER that first aired on January 10, 2008, the song is performed a capella by Kayla (Baker) a young girl with Leber's congenital amaurosis. | |
| Bob Ricci | Bob's Gone Wild | Ricci recorded a parody of the song called "Unhackable" for his 2008 album Bob's Gone Wild. | |
| Hunchback and Michael Gerald | Pray For Scars | The band Hunchback recorded a cover version for their album Pray For Scars which features Michael Gerald from Killdozer. | |
| The Zutons | Radio 1's Live Lounge - Volume 3 | The band performed a cover of the song for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. | |
| Jason Mraz | |||
| 2009 | The Lemonheads | Varshons | The band covered the song for their album Varshons. |
| Zebrahead | Panty Raid | The band recorded a version of the song for their 2009 covers album. | |
| The All-American Rejects | |||
| 2010 | The ReBeatles Project | Get Back | The ReBeatles Project, a The Beatles tribute band, recorded a cover of the song in a similar sound to that of The Beatles. |
| Amber Riley | Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers | Mercedes Jones, Riley’s character on the television series Glee, covered “Beautiful” in the episode "Home". | |
| 2011 | Columbus Children's Choir and Columbus Gay Men's Chorus | Part of the It Gets Better Project. | |
| China Anne McClain | A.N.T. Farm Soundtrack | McClain performed the song on the episode "America Needs TalANT". | |
| Savannah Robinson | Robinson recorded a version of the song and released an anti-bullying video for it on her Youtube channel. She later performed it on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. | ||
| Janet Devlin | Devlin, a contestant on the X Factor series 8, performed "Beautiful" during the "Judge's House" phase of the show to judge Kelly Rowland and mentor Jennifer Hudson. | ||
| Little Mix | The band performed the song on week 8 of the X Factor series 8, the theme of the week was "hero songs". | ||
| Beverly McClellan and Nakia | The singers performed the song as a duet during the tour "The Voice Live". | ||
| 2012 | Katharine McPhee | The Music of Smash | McPhee performs the song on the pilot episode of NBC's musical show Smash; it was later released on the show's soundtrack album. |
| Insane Clown Posse | The Mighty Death Pop! (Red Pop!) | The hip hop group covered the song for Smothered, Covered & Chunked, a bonus album packaged with their twelfth studio album, The Mighty Death Pop! The renamed title for their cover is "Beautiful (Indestructable)". | |
| Make It Rain | Israeli punk band Make It Rain often play a cover version in their shows. | ||
| Grace Guzmán | Guzman made a cover of the song for its fourth gala at the Colombian program imitators "Yo Me Llamo" (My Name Is). | ||
| Kelly Clarkson | Clarkson performed the song on a date of her Stronger Tour by audience request. | ||
| David Archuleta | Begin. | "Beautiful" is one of the covers featured on Archuleta's 2012 album Begin. |
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